Privacy Policy

WE COLLECT INFORMATION ABOUT YOU IN ORDER TO IMPROVE YOUR EXPERIENCE WITH OK FOR PETS ONLINE.

To help us serve you more relevant content, we capture information about you in order to improve your experience with OK For Pets.

This notice is to inform you about how we collect and protect any personal information you provide to us and how you can control what personal information we collect from you and what we do with it. It sets out how we intend to use your information, who we will share it with and what rights you have about use of your information.

This notice applies, however, you provide personal information to us, whether you go online to our websites, purchase our products within okforpets.com, or third party websites, for example, amazon.com, contact us or engage via social media, enter competitions, or whether you telephone, email, write to or text us.

WHAT PERSONAL DATA ARE WE COLLECTING?

We may collect the following information about you:

• your name, age/date of birth, gender and other relevant demographic information;
• your contact details: postal address including billing and delivery addresses, telephone numbers (including mobile numbers) and email address;
• information about the device you use to browse our websites including the IP address and device type;
• your communication and marketing preferences;
• your interests, preferences, feedback, competition and survey responses;
• your social media handles;
• purchases and orders made by you;
• your online browsing activities on our website including which items you store in your shopping cart;
• your location;
• your correspondence and communications with us;
• other publicly available personal data, including any which you have shared via a public platform (such as Instagram, YouTube, Twitter or public Facebook page).

This list is not exhaustive and in specific instances, we may need to collect additional data for the purposes set out in this Notice. Some personal data is collected directly, for example when you set up an account on our website or contact us via email or social media, for example facebook messenger. Other personal data is collected indirectly, for example when you browse our websites or engage in online shopping activity. We may also collect personal data from third parties who have your consent to pass your details to us, or from publicly available sources. We may anonymize and aggregate personal data for insight and research but this will not identify anyone.

Our website should not be used by children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.

 

HOW WE ARE USING YOUR DATA

General

OK For Pets (and trusted partners acting on our behalf) use your personal data:

• to provide goods and services to you;
• to make a tailored website available to you;
• For legal accounting requirements;
• for analysis, insight and research purposes - to better understand your needs and ensure we are giving most relevant content, optimize our website for best user experience;
• to identify and contact competition winners;
• to enable us to manage customer service interactions with you;
• to manage any account(s) you hold with us;
• to verify your identity;
• for fraud prevention, detection and related purposes;
• with your consent, to contact you about promotional offers, products and services which we think you may be interested in.
• to show you promotional communications through online media as you browse the web;
• where we have a legal right or duty to use or disclose your information (for example in relation to an investigation by a public authority or in a legal dispute).

Marketing and Promotional communications

To ensure you are kept up to date with OK For Pets, we use personal data for marketing purposes and we may send you texts and/or emails to update you on the latest offers and events. We may also show you online media communications through external social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram and external digital advertisers such as Google.

You have the right to opt out of receiving promotional communications at any time, by:

1. informing us that you want to change your marketing preferences by contacting our customer support at support@okforpets.com.
2. by clicking an “unsubscribe” link in any email that you have received from us.

This may not stop service messages such as order updates.

Text marketing (if applicable): With your permission, we may send text messages about our store, new products, and other updates. Updates include Checkout Reminders. Webhooks will be used to trigger the Checkout Reminders messaging system.

Personalisation and Automated Decision Making

If you visit our website, you may receive personalized advertisements whilst browsing websites of other companies. Any advertisements you see will relate to your browsing activity on our website from your computer or other devices.

These advertisements are provided by us via external market leading specialist providers using techniques such as pixels, web beacons, ad tags, mobile identifiers and ‘cookies’ placed on your computer or other devices (see further information on the use of cookies in our Cookie Policy). You can remove or disable cookies at any time – see Cookie Policy for further information.

We may collect data directly from you, as well as analyse your browsing and purchasing behavior online and your responses to marketing communications. The results of this analysis, together with other demographic data, allow us to ensure that we contact you with information on products, services, events and offers that are tailored and relevant to you. To do so, we use software and other technology for automated decision making. We may do this to decide what marketing communications are suitable for you and this activity is based on our legitimate interests to develop and improve our products and services.

Also to provide more personalized services and experiences, we may review data held by external social media platform providers about you, for example, details on your Twitter or Facebook profiles that you have chosen to make publicly accessible such as your name, date of birth. Some of our services enable you to sign-in via external social media platform providers such as Facebook. If you choose to sign-in via a third party app, you will be presented with a dialog box which will ask your permission to allow us to access your personal information (e.g. your full name, date of birth, email address and any other information you have made accessible).

We aim to update you about products and services which are of interest and relevance to you as an individual. To help us do this, we process data by profiling and segmenting, identifying what our customers like and ensuring messages we send them are relevant based on their demographics, interests, purchase behaviors, online web browsing activity and engagement with previous communications. We may also use your data to exclude you from communications which we feel are irrelevant to you. For example, we may exclude someone from resends of marketing emails when we know that person has already opened the original email sent.

Another example of how we may tailor our communications with you is that we may group individuals with similar interests using this data so we can send them product news or promotional offers that are relevant to that shared interest.

You have the right to opt out of any automated processing, including profiling, at any time by:

1. informing us that you wish to opt out of automated processing by contacting our customer support team at support@okforpets.com.

Mardim inc ("us", "we", or "our") operates the https://okforpets.com website (the "Service").

COOKIES

Our websites use cookies to capture information. This includes information about browsing and purchasing behavior by people who access our websites, including pages viewed, products purchased and customer journey around our websites.

 

Detailed information is set out in our Cookie Policy and is provided to ensure you are fully aware of the cookies we use, allowing you to make an informed choice about your acceptance of cookies.

SHARING DATA WITH THIRD PARTIES

Our service providers and suppliers

In order to make certain services available to you and to help us better understand your preferences, we have partnered with certain trusted third parties including logistics and marketing service providers. We may need to share your personal information with some of our service partners. We only allow our service providers to handle your personal information when they have confirmed that they apply appropriate data protection and security controls. We also impose contractual obligations on service providers relating to data protection and security, which mean they can only use your information to provide services to us and to you, and for no other purposes. We may provide outside companies with aggregated and anonymized information and analytics about our customers but that would never identify you and we will never sell or rent your personal information to other organizations for any purposes.

To help you understand which partners we share data with, here are the types of companies with whom we share data in order to provide and promote our goods and services:

External Service Provider	Reason for sharing your data	Example
Companies that help us provide our goods to you including providers of e-commerce platforms and payment, logistics, delivery, courier and returns management services.	We have help from outside organizations in order to ensure we can provide our products and services to you.	Making sure that the courier knows where to deliver your order.
Companies that help us provide a better  experience tailored to you including providers of intelligence tools and social media platforms, providers of website hosting, marketing and advertising services and organizers of discount and loyalty schemes.	We want to make sure that we are always relevant, completely understand you and give you the best customer journey to ensure we can tailor your experience, reach you in the platforms you enjoy using and save you time.	Using information about your previous purchases and what you store in your shopping cart to show you, through channels such as social media or emails, product recommendations and let you know when new products release. The optional use of sign in for our website through external site operators such as Facebook and Student Beans. Understanding the device that you use to browse our websites to improve your shopping experience.
Fraud Prevention agencies.	To help tackle fraud we pass data through fraud prevention tools operated by external companies.	Validating your details when you make a purchase on our website.

Other third parties

We may also share your data with:

• other companies within our group;
• to purchasers, and advisers if we sell our business or assets or restructure whether by merger, re-organization or otherwise;
• our legal and other professional advisers, including our auditors;
• credit reference agencies where necessary for card payments;
• governmental bodies, regulators, law enforcement agencies, courts/tribunals and insurers where we are required to do so: -
  • to comply with our legal obligations and the administration of justice;
  • to exercise our legal rights (for example in court cases);
  • for the prevention, detection, investigation of crime or prosecution of offenders; and
  • for the protection of our employees and customers.

 

LEGAL BASIS FOR USING DATA

We are required to set out the legal basis for our processing of your personal data.

We collect and use customers’ personal data:

1. as necessary to perform our contract with you:
   • for the purposes of complying with our duties and exercising our rights under a contract for the sale of goods or services to a customer;
     or
2. as necessary for the pursuit of our legitimate interests,including:
   • selling and supplying goods and services to our customers;
   • promoting, marketing and advertising our products and services;
   • sending promotional communications which are relevant and tailored to individual customers (including administering loyalty schemes);
   • to identify and contact competition winners;
   • understanding our customers’ behaviour, activities, preferences, and needs;
   • improving existing products and services and developing new products and services;
   • protecting customers, employees and other individuals and maintaining their safety, health and welfare;
   • good governance, accounting and managing and auditing our operations and complying with our legal and regulatory obligations;
   • preventing, investigating and detecting crime, fraud or anti-social behaviour and prosecuting offenders, including working with law enforcement agencies;
   • handling customer contacts, queries, complaints or disputes;
   • protecting our company, its employees and customers, by taking appropriate legal action against third parties who have committed criminal acts or are in breach of legal obligations to us;
   • handling any legal claims or regulatory enforcement actions taken against us; and
   • fulfilling our duties to our customers, colleagues, shareholders and other stakeholders;
     or
3. as necessary for complying with our legal obligations including:
   • where you exercise your rights under data protection laws
   • for compliance with legal and regulatory requirements;
   • to establish or defend legal rights;
     or
4. based on your consent for example in relation to sending direct marketing communications via email or text message.

You have the right to withdraw consent at any time. Where consent is the only legal basis for processing, we will cease to process data after consent is withdrawn.

 

HOW WE PROTECT YOUR DATA

Our controls

OK For Pets is committed to keeping your personal data safe and secure.

Our security measures include: -

• encryption of data;
• regular cyber security assessments of all service providers who may handle your personal data;
• regular planning to ensure we are ready to respond to cybersecurity attacks and data security incidents;
• daily penetration testing of systems;
• security controls which protect our IT systems infrastructure and our premises from external attack and unauthorized access;
• internal policies setting out our data security rules for our personnel; and
• regular training for our employees.

 

HOW LONG WE KEEP YOUR DATA

We will not retain your data for longer than necessary for the purposes set out in this Notice. Different retention periods apply for different types of information, and our Data Retention Policy sets out the length of time we will usually retain personal data and where these default periods might be changed.

In summary, various laws, accounting and regulatory requirements applicable to us require us to retain certain records for specific amounts of time. In relation to your personal data, we will hold this only for so long as we require that personal data for legal or regulatory reasons or for legitimate organizational purposes. We will not keep your data for longer than is necessary for the purposes for which we collect them.

 

INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS OF YOUR DATA

To deliver products and services to you, it is sometimes necessary to share your personal information outside of the European Economic Area (the EEA). This will typically occur when service providers are located outside the EEA or if you are based outside the EEA. These transfers are subject to special rules under data protection laws.

If we transfer your personal information outside the EEA, we will ensure that the transfer will be compliant with data protection law and all personal data will be secure. Our standard practice is to assess the laws and practices of the destination country and relevant service provider and the security measures that are to be taken as regards the data in the overseas location; alternatively, we use standard data protection clauses.

 

YOUR RIGHTS

You have the following rights:

• the right to be informed about our processing or your personal data which is the aim of this Notice;
• the right to request access to personal data we hold about you at any time;
• the right to ask us to update and correct any out-of-date or incorrect personal data that we hold about you;
• the right to object to the processing of your personal data and/ or to withdraw any consent you have given us and to opt out of any marketing communications that we may send you;
• the right to prevent processing that is likely to cause damage or distress to you or anyone else;
• the certain rights in relation to automated decision making including profiling;
• the right to request that we erase your personal data in certain circumstances (the right to be forgotten) for example when the data are no longer necessary for the purpose for which we collected them;
• the right to have your personal data provided to you by us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and transmitted to another data controller. This is known as the right to data portability.

If you wish to exercise any of the above rights, you can always contact us at support@okforpets.com and one of our team members will get back to you right away.